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Showing posts with label Planets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Planets. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
E Mail From a Planet
Today we imagined that we were visiting one of the planets. We had to send an email to our family and friends to tell them about our experience. We had to include a “photo” that we took while visiting the planet.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Our address in the Universe
WALT... understand that the Universe is a huge place ... write our address in the Universe
... design a Planet stamp to put on your envelope
(Your name)
7 Ironside Drive
Wanaka
Central Otago
South Island
New Zealand
Southern Hemisphere
The Earth
The Solar System
The Milky Way Galaxy
The Local Group
The Local Supercluster
The Universe
How big is the universe? For a long time, people believed the universe was infinitely big and it went on forever in every direction. Today, we know that is not true. The universe does end somewhere very far way. But the end is so far away that our regular measurement units are no longer useful to measure it.
The distance from Wanaka to Auckland is 997.58 kilometres.
The distance from the Earth to the moon is 356,000 kilometres.
The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 150,000,000 kilometres .
The distance to even the nearest star is more than 40,000,000,000,000 kilometres.
You can see that our regular units of distance don't work for the size of the universe.
Instead, astronomers use a unit of distance called the light-year
One light-year is the distance that light travels in one year: one light-year is equal to 9,458,000,000,000 kilometres. Using this new unit makes astronomical distances easier to express. The nearest star is 4.3 light-years away. (Remember that the star is still the same distance away, whether we express it as 40,000,000,000,000 kilometres or 4.3 light-years).
WOW!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Star Lab
We had Star Lab ( the portable planetarium) at school last week. Will, the educator from Otago Museum, told us lots about the sun, the phases of the moon, the life cycle of stars and constellations including Greek and Maori tales. We all learnt heaps! Lots of great questions were asked too.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Planet Video
This is a great You Tube video for kids about the planets. Remeber to gather knowledge for our planet challenge!!
Planet Trading Cards
We are making sets of trading cards to show our knowledge ogf the Planets. We will then come up with a game to use these cards. There will be some rare cards made by Annie. We will need to know a lot anout the Solar System to win these cards. We all need to start building our knowledge as part of the 'Finding Out' stage of our inquiry! We wonder who will win the most cards. We all understan that this is a learning activity and we do not bring trading cards to school!
Look at this example of trading cards on Google Docs.
Trading Cards
Look at this example of trading cards on Google Docs.
Trading Cards
Solar System Games and Puzzles
Try this astonomical object vocabulary Game
Complete these slide puzzles of the planets.
Click on the planet jigsaws and see how quickly you can make them!
Label the Solar System
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Space Vocabulary Memory Game
Match a talking vocabulary picture with its talking word card. Vocabulary words are: telescope, moon, alien, rocket, orbit, space shuttle, astronaut, satellite, phases, crater, planet, and meteor. Reveal part of a solar system surprise with every matched pair.
Solar System Facts
Solar System Facts
Learn about the solar system. Click on the graphic to use an interactive animated tutorial to learn facts about space and the planets.
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Learn about the solar system. Click on the graphic to use an interactive animated tutorial to learn facts about space and the planets.
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Monday, June 6, 2011
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